From: phantomjinx <p.g...@ph...> - 2009-08-26 19:11:34
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Tamas Dobozy wrote: > Dear P.G. > > Thanks so much for getting back to me. It's rare that I actually get > responses to my posts, for some reason. I did as you asked and here's > what I got, in total: > > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.839449] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] > 58605120 512-byte hardware sectors: (30.0 GB/27.9 GiB) > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.840571] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] > Write Protect is off > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.840577] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] > Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08 > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.840583] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] > Assuming drive cache: write through > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.840593] sdb: [mac] sdb1 > sdb2 sdb3 > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.855498] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] > Attached SCSI removable disk > Aug 26 14:51:39 tamas-laptop kernel: [10526.855651] sd 6:0:0:0: > Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > Aug 26 14:51:40 tamas-laptop kernel: [10527.778578] hfs: Filesystem > was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. > mounting read-only. > Aug 26 14:51:40 tamas-laptop kernel: [10528.188220] hfs: Filesystem > was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. > mounting read-only. > Aug 26 14:51:40 tamas-laptop hald: mounted /dev/sdb3 on behalf of uid > 1000 > > As you can see, at the very bottom, it's telling me that my filesystem > was not cleanly unmounted, which doesn't make sense, since I always > eject via software, and then wait until the iPod itself tells me it's > safe to disconnect before actually pulling the plug. > > Can you advise me further on what to do? > > Thanks, > Tamas That's pretty useful then. Seems you didnt unmount the ipod on a previous occasion. Thus, it would like you to run fsck on it. So what to do: 1) Unmount ipod 2) Remove and reinsert if you want to be sure. 3) Don't mount the ipod! 4) su to root in a terminal 5) run the command "/sbin/fsck.hfsplus /dev/sdb3" where sdb3 I think is the offending partition according to your log. See how that works for you. PGR |